Free Software audit update
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Aug 21 11:40:08 UTC 2006
Michael Tiemann wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 05:50 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
>>> Ok my wording might not have been entirely appropriate but it doesnt
>>> meet the packaging guidelines for either Free software
>>> (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/motif.html) or open source software
>>> (http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/faq.html) and should be removed from
>>> the distribution.
>> Yes, OpenMotif is not a copyright nor a legal issue. It's a religious
>> one. It's licence doesn't meet the some people's "confession/belief"
>
> Ralf,
>
> I disagree. Fedora was constituted as a free software distribution.
Correction: (AFAICT) As it is *right now* Fedora is an OpenSource
distribution, not 100% free (yet). Moving from OSS -> free is another
discussion.
-- Rex
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